Cheap eBay grips?

[jenic]

Anything to be wary about with these?

Looking at this one, 1/3 of the price of the canon one!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BG-E5-BATTERY...hotography_DigitalCamAccess_RL#ht_2235wt_1139

 

[dunganick]

Bought a Phottix grip 2 years ago. Hasn't put a foot wrong and its not exactly had an easy life, its been soaked on about 3 different occasions and generally abused. Yet its still going strong. My only gripe with it is that the wheel doesn't have much resistance to it, so it easily knocked.

 

[Reev]

Bought an Opteka grip for my 20D a while back which lasted just over a year. One of the batteries blew up inside the grip and melted a large portion of the plastic inside the battery tray, and although I know this is 99.9% likely to be the battery at fault, I'd probably just buy a genuine Canon grip in future anyway just in case.

 

[jenic]

I bought one now anyway, was only £22!

Got a battery off 7day shop to pop in it since i dont trust the ebay batterys.